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Graduate Certificate in Music Auditions

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There are four stages to the audition process. They include:

  1. Application to Audition, including a 15 minute video
  2. Live Audition
  3. Application for Admission
  4. Acceptance

The due date for applications to audition is 4pm on Monday 8 September 2025. The School may accept late applications to audition on a case by case basis: under no circumstances will late applications be considered after 4pm on Tuesday 25 November 2025.

  1. Application Formats
  2. Application to Audition
  1. Live Audition
  2. Applying for a Place in the Graduate Certificate in Music Program

1. Application Formats

The School of Music determines which instrument you can study in the Graduate Certificate in Music program if you are successful in obtaining an offer of a place through the audition process.

Applicants may audition for one or two of the following:

  • Brass (any of euphonium, horn, trombone, trumpet, tuba)
  • Classical Guitar (not electric guitar)
  • Composition
  • Harp
  • Percussion (including drum kit)
  • Piano (not electric keyboard)
  • Strings (any of cello, double bass, violin, viola)
  • Woodwind (any of saxophone, bassoon, clarinet, flute, oboe)
  • Voice

The expected standard is that of a Bachelor of Music graduate, so you should prepare repertoire from or comparable to your final year of practical assessment in your Bachelor's degree.

Instrumental and voice applicants must submit a video recording performing three Western Art Music works of contrasting styles from different periods for the audition. Works should be representative of the repertoire you performed during the final year of your Bachelor of Music, and presented with accompaniment when required: applicants must make personal arrangements for accompaniment. Blues, jazz, popular, folk, rock and similar genres are not acceptable repertoire for your audition. Percussionists must supply your own sticks and mallets for the audition.

Composition applicants must submit an audio recording of three varied compositions (or excerpts) of approximately two minutes each, demonstrating a range of instrumentation and/or style and including the staff notation and recording (the recording may be a midi realisation). Works should be representative of your folio of compositions from the final year of your Bachelor of Music. Electronic works without score may also be included. You are not required to play your own compositions in your video submission, but if you are invited to the second round of live auditions, you will be asked to perform your scores where possible, and required to demonstrate your skill on an instrument that can participate in ensemble performances with other composition students in workshops.

The School of Music does not provide verbal or written feedback on your audition.